Read the sentence below and answer the question. reverend sykes used his pulpit more freely to express his views on individual lapses from grace: jim hardy had been absent from church for five sundays and he wasn’t sick; constance jackson had better watch her ways – she was in grave danger of quarreling with her neighbors; she had erected the only spite fence in the history of the quarters. in at least 75 words, explain how the semicolons are used in the excerpt.

Semicolons are among the punctuations that are misused and misunderstood most than any other punctuation marks. This is because they have been dropped dramatically in the modern literature. Normally semi colons were used in every ten words but today is not the case, because you will come across a semi colon after about ten pages.

Therefore in the given excert, semicolons are used to indicate a long and complicated list that contain individual points that are beneficial and in a continuous form.

bevy means a large group or thing of a certain kind.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)